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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
The more interesting thing for me is how far Amazon is willing to hurt its customers and its customer service in getting its way.
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I applaud you for, unlike some of the other anti-DRM posters, being unwilling to deny the obvious here. Amazon is using strong-arm tactics in a dispute with a supplier. There's nothing inherently evil about that. Amazon's long-term refusal to carry most Apple merchandise, reportedly due to Apple's refusal to allow deep discounting, is just fine.
But since Hachette mostly pays author advances, and Amazon, as a publisher, mostly doesn't, I still, as a mild fan of literature, root for Hachette. I'm sure that going indie benefits some authors (while hurting others). But what I see as a reader is that, as a publisher, Amazon favors quantity over quality. Maybe Hachette does as well, but not to that extent.
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Originally Posted by Manabi
People are more understanding of DRM for library borrowing because they understand something has to be there to keep it from being a free e-book giveaway. . . .
On the other hand, buyers almost routinely hate DRM of any kind.
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Do you have any polling information on this? I just tried to find it, and cannot.
Just guessing, I would think the opposite. Library borrowers don't like that the book disappears when the due date is reached. My biggest objection to the Overdrive/3M/Axis360 systems is that you can't pay a small fine to go a few days overdue, as with paper books. So while I don't hate the DRM on library books, I dislike it.
In contrast, as someone who only owns one device, and deletes a book after reading (and other family members here are the same way), how would I even know there is such a thing as DRM, if I wasn't following this board? To my Dad, if you buy it from Amazon, there is nothing on the book to worry about. That's why he will sometimes pay 99 cents for an Agatha Christie eBook that he can almost as easily get from the public library. I think you underestimate how common is his perception.